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United States Patent | 5,226,586 |
Grone | July 13, 1993 |
1. Container, especially drinking cup, and process for producing it. 2.1. Drinking cups (20) in particular often have a cup body (21) made of plastic foam. The upper rim (25) of such drinking cups (20) makes drinking more difficult. 2.2. The drinking cup (20) according to the invention possesses a collar (26) attached onto the upper rim (25) of the cup body (21) and made of a compact plastic. This provides a mouth roll which makes drinking easier and which gives the drinking cup (20) according to the invention the properties of drinking cups formed completely from more extensive compact materials. 3. The invention relates, above all, to rotationally symmetrical drinking cups (20) which are used for the dispensing of drinks from automatic machines or as inserts for reusable drinking-cup holders.
Inventors: | Grone; Horst-Ditmar (Schwanewede, DE) |
Assignee: | LIN TEC Verpackungstechnik GmbH (DE) |
Appl. No.: | 690728 |
Filed: | April 24, 1991 |
Apr 26, 1990[DE] | 4013266 | |
Aug 24, 1990[DE] | 4026801 |
Current U.S. Class: | 229/400; 220/640; 220/642 |
Intern'l Class: | B65D 003/30; B65D 051/00 |
Field of Search: | 229/1.5 B,5.5,5.7,123.2,123.3 220/356,640,642,643,712 |
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